A new study released at the 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, reveals that there is a connection between diabetics and people with colon cancer.

Researchers found that people with diabetes were 1.4 times more likely to have colon cancer as individuals without diabetes

Researchers find that young African Americans are at a much higher risk for colon cancer than other races.

Researchers looked at racial factors in analyzing findings from colonoscopy exams and found that among those with abnormal findings, polyps were the most common among African Americans, while hemorrhoids were the most common finding for Caucasians, and Hispanics most commonly experienced diverticulosis

Shire Pharmaceuticals Inc. presents new data demonstrating that the drug Adderall XR significantly improves symptoms in adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

Nearly 75-percent of study participants experienced improvement in ADHD symptoms, according to preliminary results of the Quality of Life, Effectiveness, Safety, and Tolerability (Qu.E.S.T.) study, presented at the annual meeting of Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)

Shire Pharmaceuticals Inc. unveils new data demonstrating highly prescribed children' drug Adderall significantly improves symptoms in adults with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Nearly 75-percent of study participants experienced improvement in ADHD symptoms, according to preliminary results of the Quality of Life, Effectiveness, Safety, and Tolerability (Qu.E.S.T.) study, presented the data at the annual meeting of Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)

Researchers have discovered a possible cause of prostate cancer, a finding they say could result in better forms of treatment or possibly a cure. Doctors had thought prostate cancer was the result of lots of random genetic mutations, but a study involving the University of Michigan Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston suggests prostate cancer begins after specific genes fuse.

This new information may allow doctors to begin to divide prostate cancer -- which is now treated as a single disease -- into different types as they have been treating breast cancer for years